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Posts tagged with 'nypd' at MetaFilter.Tue, 16 Aug 2016 06:45:45 -0800Tue, 16 Aug 2016 06:45:45 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60The Terrifying, Already Forgotten JFK Airport Shooting That Wasn'thttp://www.metafilter.com/161652/The%2DTerrifying%2DAlready%2DForgotten%2DJFK%2DAirport%2DShooting%2DThat%2DWasnt
<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/the-terrifying-jfk-airport-shooting-that-wasnt.html">"When the first stampede began, my plane had just landed"</a> - NY Magazine features a personal experience with Sunday's <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no-confirmation-shots-fired-jfk-airport-new-york-authorities-say-n630666">false reports of a shooting at JFK airport</a> in New York City. <a href="http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/videos/a47677/jfk-aiport-mass-shooting-nypd-response/">"Horrifying" video of the police response</a>, which is <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/gun-scare-creates-chaos-at-jfk-1471266186">being investigated.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.161652Tue, 16 Aug 2016 06:45:45 -0800AFABulous"That's when the narcotics officers kicked in the door."http://www.metafilter.com/156859/Thats%2Dwhen%2Dthe%2Dnarcotics%2Dofficers%2Dkicked%2Din%2Dthe%2Ddoor
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-nuisance-abatement-evictions">The NYPD is Kicking People Out of Their Homes, Even If They Haven't Committed a Crime</a> <em>via</em> ProPublica and the New York Daily News. tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.156859Fri, 05 Feb 2016 07:47:16 -0800roomthreeseventeenWhat lift lines?http://www.metafilter.com/156530/What%2Dlift%2Dlines
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRv7G7WpOoU">Snowboarding New York</a> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.156530Sun, 24 Jan 2016 07:55:25 -0800PareidoliaticBoyTweeting from a protest subjects you to enrollment in a police databasehttp://www.metafilter.com/154927/Tweeting%2Dfrom%2Da%2Dprotest%2Dsubjects%2Dyou%2Dto%2Denrollment%2Din%2Da%2Dpolice%2Ddatabase
<a href="https://www.inverse.com/article/8358-your-social-media-posts-are-fueling-the-future-of-police-surveillance">Your Social Media Posts Are Fueling the Future of Police Surveillance</a> - Any posts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any other location-tagged social media uploaded in [an] area will appear on a display at police headquarters. An uploaded Vine from one block away could show someone running away, and give the cops a starting point for their investigation. How long until that hypothetical situation is a reality? "We're 100 percent there," says Lee Guthman, head of business development at <a href="https://geofeedia.com/">Geofeedia</a>, a location-based social media monitoring site. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.154927Sun, 22 Nov 2015 06:57:08 -0800nevercalmMeet the most decorated detective in NYPD historyhttp://www.metafilter.com/154638/Meet%2Dthe%2Dmost%2Ddecorated%2Ddetective%2Din%2DNYPD%2Dhistory
<a href="http://theerant.yuku.com/reply/810476/Re-NYPD-Det-Ralph-Friedman-Challenge-Coin#.VkECbWSrRpg">A challenge coin has been struck</a> to commemorate <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeganNYC/status/663861721702883328/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Det. Ralph Friedman</a>'s service in the NYPD. He is <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/02/15/meet-the-most-decorated-detective-in-nypd-history/">the most decorated detective in NYPD history</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.154638Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:18:31 -0800TalezBalancing Safety with Sievertshttp://www.metafilter.com/154012/Balancing%2DSafety%2Dwith%2DSieverts
"<em>In New York City, the police now maintain an unknown number of military-grade vans outfitted with X-ray radiation, enabling cops to look through the walls of buildings or the sides of trucks ... <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/the-nypd-is-using-mobile-x-rays-to-spy-on-unknown-targets/411181/?single_page=true">The NYPD will not reveal when, where, or how often they are used</a>.</em>" tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.154012Wed, 21 Oct 2015 04:45:53 -0800tocts"At the very least it should have been a major sports story. "http://www.metafilter.com/153795/At%2Dthe%2Dvery%2Dleast%2Dit%2Dshould%2Dhave%2Dbeen%2Da%2Dmajor%2Dsports%2Dstory
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/oct/12/the-silence-over-the-thabo-sefolosha-trial-is-deafening-and-mystifying">The silence</a> over the Thabo Sefolosha trial is deafening...and mystifying. <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2015/04/09/thabo-sefolosha-video-of-combative-arrest-headlocked-and-taken-down/?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067">Video</a> of the incident, in which Sefolosha's leg was <a href="http://deadspin.com/cops-throw-thabo-sefolosha-to-the-ground-and-arrest-him-1696879611">broken by the NYPD
<a href="http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=13832709">Bomani Jones</a> calls out the sports media's coverage (starts around 2:00)
<b>Trial Coverage from /r/NBA</b>
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/3nla7e/thabo_sefolosha_trial_begins_today_in_manhattan/">Day 1</a>
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/3npvrq/thabo_sefolosha_trial_day_2/">Day 2</a>
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/3nu06k/thabo_sefolosha_trial_day_3/">Day 3</a>
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/3nys01/thabo_sefolosha_trial_day_4/">Day 4</a></a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.153795Tue, 13 Oct 2015 06:29:25 -0800BulgaroktonosThe Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorismhttp://www.metafilter.com/152579/The%2DTemporary%2DAutonomous%2DZone%2DOntological%2DAnarchy%2DPoetic%2DTerrorism
<i>Our books lived, were killed, and reborn, and released. They were donated, organized, cataloged, seized, destroyed, saved, and became testimony, evidence, burden, and discarded.</i>
<a href="http://discardstudies.com/2015/08/30/the-dregs-of-the-library-trashing-the-occupy-wall-street-library/">The Dregs of the Library: Trashing the Occupy Wall Street Library</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.152579Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:00:26 -0800anastasiavMy Blue Polyester Prisonhttp://www.metafilter.com/151064/My%2DBlue%2DPolyester%2DPrison
<blockquote>The NYPD uniform is as iconic as it is polarizing. Wearing it makes me a target for both praise and censure—neither of which I, in most cases, did anything to deserve. My character becomes a many-sided die, the cast contingent on the preconceptions and experiences of whoever is looking. With each person I encounter I wonder how it's going to be: Am I an oaf? A hero? A pawn? A tyrant?</blockquote>
<a href="http://grey-magazine.com/social-issues-a-woman-in-uniform">An anonymous female NYPD officer reflects on what it's like to wear the blue.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.151064Wed, 08 Jul 2015 09:25:02 -0800Cash4LeadHow Facebook Landed Me In Rikershttp://www.metafilter.com/147000/How%2DFacebook%2DLanded%2DMe%2DIn%2DRikers
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/10/7341077/nypd-harlem-crews-social-media-rikers-prison">How the NYPD is using social media to put Harlem teens behind bars.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.147000Fri, 13 Feb 2015 05:50:38 -0800ellieBOAFerrets IN Groundhogs OUThttp://www.metafilter.com/145751/Ferrets%2DIN%2DGroundhogs%2DOUT
<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/12/43-ways-mayor-de-blasio-changed-new-york.html">43 ways NYC changed under Mayor de Blaiso</a> (nymag.com) tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.145751Wed, 31 Dec 2014 09:14:52 -0800The WhelkExecutionhttp://www.metafilter.com/145515/Execution
For the first time since 2011, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/nyregion/two-police-officers-shot-in-their-patrol-car-in-brooklyn.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news">two NYPD officers</a> have been killed in the line of duty; PO Wenjian Liu and PO Rafael Ramos were shot, execution style, while sitting in their patrol car yesterday afternoon in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. The <a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/12/20/7428179/nypd-officers-shot-killed">suspect</a>, who shot himself at a subway station nearby, had allegedly <a href="http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/12/20/baltimore-man-shoots-2-nypd-officer-1-dead-second-in-critical-condition/">shot his girlfriend</a> in Maryland yesterday morning, before posting on social media that <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/12/21/372257646/gunman-made-anti-police-posts-before-killing-nypd-officers">he was going to kill cops</a> in retaliation for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Pat Lynch, the president of the largest police union in New York City — the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, has <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/12/20/3606034/police-union-president-blames-protesters-mayor-deblasio-for-murder-of-two-new-york-city-police-officers/">blamed</a> Mayor de Blasio for the murders, and the New York City police officers, already angry with the mayor for his comments about police violence, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/21/1353296/-Is-Mayor-DeBlasio-going-to-be-safe#">last night turned their backs on the mayor as he entered the police press conference to address the shooting deaths of two officers in Brooklyn.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.145515Sun, 21 Dec 2014 09:03:13 -0800roomthreeseventeenAkai Gurleyhttp://www.metafilter.com/144723/Akai%2DGurley
Last night, a 28 year old man named Akai Gurley was <a href="http://gothamist.com/2014/11/21/unarmed_man_killed_cop.php">shot to death</a> in a stairwell by an NYPD officer who was patrolling the Pink Houses in East New York. Gurley and his girlfriend had decided to take the stairs because the elevator was taking too long. Police Commissioner Bratton said today that the victim was "a total innocent" and called the shooting <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/22/nyregion/new-york-police-officer-fatally-shoots-brooklyn-man.html">"an unfortunate accident."</a> The 27 year old officer who shot Gurley, Peter Liang, has been on the force for less than 18 months and was on probationary status; he and his partner were patrolling the apartment building on assignment as part of <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/nypd-to-roll-out-revamped-operation-impact-plan-1401418520">Operation Impact,</a> which brings additional officers into neighborhoods that are prone to violent crimes
MotherJones (from 2011): <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/photoessays/2011/09/nypd-rookies-dangerous-beat/mott-haven">"For more than seven years, the first assignment for nearly all rookie New York City police officers has been to patrol "impact zones" with the highest crime rates, often on foot and without backup; In January, 2014, Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said that he planned to no longer send rookie officers immediately into impact zones. "I think they would benefit from it, working with officers in traditional precinct assignments," he said."</a>
This past summer, "<a href="http://gothamist.com/2014/07/09/crime_projects_nyc.php">Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that an additional $87 million added to his (now) $210.5 million citywide plan to make public housing developments safer."</a>
The mayor "told reporters Friday, according to Capital New York, that the shooting of Gurley "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/21/akai-gurley-nypd-shooting-dead_n_6199428.html">does appear to have been an accident" and that people shouldn't "connect all the dots" between Gurley, [Michael] Brown and [Eric] Garner."</a> (Garner, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/141186/The-death-of-Eric-Garner">previously</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.144723Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:54:59 -0800roomthreeseventeen"I still get hate mail from active and retired police officers."http://www.metafilter.com/144445/I%2Dstill%2Dget%2Dhate%2Dmail%2Dfrom%2Dactive%2Dand%2Dretired%2Dpolice%2Dofficers
<blockquote>In the opening scene of the 1973 movie "Serpico," I am shot in the face—or to be more accurate, the character of Frank Serpico, played by Al Pacino, is shot in the face. Even today it's very difficult for me to watch those scenes, which depict in a very realistic and terrifying way what actually happened to me on Feb. 3, 1971.</blockquote>
Frank Serpico: <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/the-police-are-still-out-of-control-112160_full.html">the police are still out of control</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.144445Thu, 13 Nov 2014 03:11:02 -0800MartinWisse"Broken Windows" Liberalismhttp://www.metafilter.com/141802/Broken%2DWindows%2DLiberalism
<a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/broken-windows-liberalism/">Bill de Blasio has reduced the use of stop-and-frisk, but he still supports the kind of policing that led to Eric Garner's death.</a> New York City cops are fuming. On Tuesday, union officials gathered to publicly <a href="http://observer.com/2014/08/pba-slams-police-haters-sharpton-in-wake-of-garner-homicide/">denounce</a> "police haters" and defend the conduct of police officers involved in the apprehension of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner">Eric Garner</a>, a Staten Island man who was killed while being placed under arrest for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes. Last week, the state medical examiner's office <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/01/justice/new-york-choke-hold-death/">said</a> Garner died as a result of being put in a chokehold — a tactic banned by the New York Police Department. But the problem, as union officials see it, is that the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-5UY9I1EbU">video</a> of the arrest heightened anti-cop hysteria, and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was elected with progressive support and ordered an investigation of the incident, acquiesced to this irrational outcry. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.141802Sat, 09 Aug 2014 18:19:56 -0800whyareyouatriangleThe death of Eric Garnerhttp://www.metafilter.com/141186/The%2Ddeath%2Dof%2DEric%2DGarner
Last week, a 43 year-old man named Eric Garner <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/07/21/investigations-outrage-follow-police-chokehold-and-eric-garners-death/">died</a> during an arrest on Staten Island, New York, when he was put in what looked like a choke hold. The NYPD claims that Mr. Garner was selling illegally cigarettes outside a store. The entire encounter, which was videotaped and posted to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMb-teDR-dI">YouTube</a>, (graphic) has so far resulted in the removal of the badge and gun from the arresting officers, as well as the suspension of <a href="http://7online.com/news/4-emts-now-suspended-without-pay-for-eric-garners-death-/197357/">two EMTs and two paramedics</a> who were seen on another video taking Garner's pulse but apparently <a href="http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/07/emts_and_paramedics_who_respon.html">doing little else</a> for about <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/07/20/cops-didnt-give-medical-assistance-to-man-after-chokehold/">two minutes</a>. An <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-internal-nypd-report-staten-island-dad-mention-chokehold-article-1.1875221#ixzz38ClgIVJG">NYPD internal report</a> prepared right after his death on Staten Island last Thursday plays down the incident, with supervising officers failing to note the chokehold and insisting Garner was not in "great distress."
The death of Eric Garner has brought more attention and <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/protesters-call-bill-bratton-resignation-staten-island-death-blog-entry-1.1874751">protests</a> against NYPD Commissioner <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/21/bill-bratton-eric-garner_n_5607680.html">Bill Bratton</a>, the former Police Commissioner under Rudolph Giuliani, who then went on to serve for the LAPD before being hired by Mayor de Blasio last winter.
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/killed-by-the-nypd-black-men_n_5600045.html">"I didn't do shit!" Garner can be seen telling cops in a video of the incident. "I was just minding my own business."
"Every time you see me, you want to mess with me," he added. "I'm tired of it ... Please just leave me alone!"</a>
<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07/cops-react-to-the-death-of-eric-garner.html">How Anonymous Cops Online Are Reacting to the Death of Eric Garner</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.141186Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:56:54 -0800roomthreeseventeenword has it, he got a deal for only $2350/monthhttp://www.metafilter.com/138398/word%2Dhas%2Dit%2Dhe%2Dgot%2Da%2Ddeal%2Dfor%2Donly%2D2350%2Dmonth
An army of NYPD cops on Thursday <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/04/17/cops-evict-man-living-in-manhattan-bridge/">evicted</a> a <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/04/15/cops-forced-me-to-live-in-the-manhattan-bridge/">homeless man</a> from his <a href="http://imgur.com/a/5y97f">Manhattan Bridge</a> "<a href="http://gothamist.com/2014/04/16/homeless_man_says_hes_lived_inside.php">home</a>" — which was complete with a gas heater, hot sauce and beer. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.138398Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:12:01 -0800and they trembled before her furyHome. Sweet. Home.http://www.metafilter.com/138110/Home%2DSweet%2DHome
<blockquote>"<a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/04/squatters-of-the-lower-east-side/">Squatters took up the fight where the homesteaders had shown the way, occupying abandoned buildings with a more DIY approach.</a> Whereas homesteaders, beholden to the rules of the government programs that sponsored them, hadn't been permitted to occupy a building until the work was complete, squatters moved in and lived in the raw spaces from the beginning, putting in the time and effort to transform the buildings without the financial support or sanction of the government. They scavenged materials where they could, and employed skill-sharing, learning building skills from those with experience and then passing that knowledge along. By 1989, there were an estimated two-dozen squatted buildings in the Lower East Side."</blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.138110Tue, 08 Apr 2014 04:53:40 -0800frimbleBroadway Bomb 2013http://www.metafilter.com/133450/Broadway%2DBomb%2D2013
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cF8oA0zn7A">Skateboarders, the NYPD and Yakety Sax.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.133450Fri, 01 Nov 2013 18:48:15 -0800griphusIf you put up posters in the right place, witnesses know.http://www.metafilter.com/132814/If%2Dyou%2Dput%2Dup%2Dposters%2Din%2Dthe%2Dright%2Dplace%2Dwitnesses%2Dknow
After 22 years, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/nyregion/baby-hope.html?hp">an arrest</a> has been <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57606546-504083/baby-hope-case-experts-say-time-rewards-and-publicity-help-solve-cold-cases-such-as-nyc-girls-murder/">made</a> in the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304066404579131930457266804.html">1991 murder</a> of <em><a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/arrest-in-baby-hope-case-brings-closure-to-police/article_456a193c-da62-556d-9671-0c12dcf22970.html">"Baby Hope."</a></em> The child, now known to be 4 year old Anjelica Castillo, was found murdered (presumably malnourished and sexually assaulted) and stuffed in a cooler in the summer of 1991. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/21/nyregion/no-name-few-clues-the-case-of-baby-hope.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm">Her identity was unknown for so long because her parents never reported her missing.</a>
<a href="http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20109250,00.html">1992 story about the investigation</a>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/nyregion/at-the-gravestone-of-baby-hope-investigators-who-never-let-go.html">"We weren't going to call her Jane Doe,"</a> said Jerry Giorgio, the lead detective on the case, now retired. He and other detectives collected the money for the headstone and buried her years after she was found. "We are her family," Detective Giorgio said that day. "We are burying our baby." tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.132814Sun, 13 Oct 2013 07:15:20 -0800roomthreeseventeenStop-and-frisk on trialhttp://www.metafilter.com/130878/Stop%2Dand%2Dfrisk%2Don%2Dtrial
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/nyregion/stop-and-frisk-practice-violated-rights-judge-rules.html">Stop and Frisk violated the constitutional rights of New Yorkers, federal judge holds.</a> The ruling comes after the <a href="http://ccrjustice.org/floyd-trial-updates">two-month trial</a> in <i>Floyd v. City of New York</i> and finds the tactics and policies of the NYPD in conducting stop-and-frisk systemically violates both the 4th and 14th Amendments of New Yorkers of color. Stopping short of striking down stop-and-frisk more broadly, already upheld numerous times by the Supreme Court, Judge Scheindlin ordered an <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-08-12/new-york-police-get-independent-monitor-in-stop-and-frisk-case">independent monitor</a> to oversee reforms to the practice. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.130878Mon, 12 Aug 2013 08:06:54 -0800likeatoasterNYPD rat, NYPD herohttp://www.metafilter.com/128687/NYPD%2Drat%2DNYPD%2Dhero
<a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/pedro-serrano-2013-5/">Officer Serrano's Hidden Camera</a> "Once he joined the 4-0, nothing seemed clear-cut. 'Every now and then, we would have to be put in a van and hunt, basically...'" tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.128687Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:12:13 -0800the young rope-riderI Saw Droneshttp://www.metafilter.com/122923/I%2DSaw%2DDrones
<a href="http://www.animalnewyork.com/2012/wanted-drone-poster-artist-discusses-how-he-punked-the-nypd/">The street artist behind the satirical "NYPD Drones" posters</a> has been <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/2/3718094/street-artist-nypd-drone-posters-arrested-surveillance">tracked down by forensics teams and a "counter-terrorism unit"</a> <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/street-artist-mock-ads-claimed-nypd-spy-drones-busted-article-1.1210708">and arrested.</a>
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<br>Meanwhile, on Tuesday, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/josh-begley-tweets-drone-_n_2289054.html">NYU grad student Josh Begley</a>, <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/drone-app/">also known for his Apple-rejected Drones+ app which sends push notifications every time there is a drone strike</a>, began <a href="https://twitter.com/dronestream">tweeting times, dates, and casualty counts for every US-ordered drone strike via @Dronestream.</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dronestream/status/279710130851938304">So far he is only up to August 2010.</a>
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<br>On a different front, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Jplh7uatr-E">Milo Danger takes a look at what is needed to make a fully-equipped civilian drone.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.122923Sat, 15 Dec 2012 03:56:44 -0800dunkaduncOn the importance of learning from past movementshttp://www.metafilter.com/121177/On%2Dthe%2Dimportance%2Dof%2Dlearning%2Dfrom%2Dpast%2Dmovements
<blockquote>Gideon Oliver spoke to me of the devastating effect this kind of surveillance has had on activists. "People fear that detectives are following them around. They panic. It's a movement-dismantling tactic." Most Occupy protesters are new to activism and are emotionally unprepared to deal with this kind of intimidation. Nor, so far as I have seen, are they inclined to seek the advice of older activists who were under surveillance in the 1960s and 1970s, before the protections of the original Handschu Decree, which prohibited political spying, were put in place. Those activists nevertheless found ways to continue their political work.</blockquote>
From <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/oct/25/problem-new-york-police/?pagination=false">an article on the NYPD's Intel Division</a>. The linked article references the <a href="http://www.nyclu.org/case/handschu-v-special-services-division-challenging-nypd-surveillance-practices-targeting-politica">Handschu Decree</a> - <a href="http://www.nyclu.org/content/testimony-police-surveillance-of-political-activity-history-and-current-state-of-handschu-de">here</a> is a longer background on police surveillance of activists.
<a href="http://www.aclu.org/maps/spying-first-amendment-activity-state-state">Spying on First Amendment Activity - State-by-State</a>
On the other coast, there's the <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/political-convictions/Content?oid=14397498">Seattle grand jury proceedings</a> which appeared to have <a href="https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/21/18724198.php">targeted anarchists</a> for their <a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019484675_mayday21m.html">political beliefs</a>.
Back in the day, it was the FBI's <a href="http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm">COINTELPRO</a> (more <a href="http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9905a/jbcointelpro.html">here</a>). When COINTELPRO was discovered and publicized, it created a large enough stir that future political surveillance by law enforcement in the US generally gets compared to it. "Return of COINTELPRO" previously on the blue: <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/96078/The-FBI-is-targeting-Peace-Activists-again">1</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/31320/Return-of-COINTELPRO">2</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/14253/The-new-COINTELPRO">3</a>.
Information about how activists resisted surveillance in the 1960s and 1970s is (perhaps not surprisingly) not so easy to find with a quick online search. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.121177Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:35:54 -0800eviemath"We're going to go out there, and we're going to violate some rights."http://www.metafilter.com/120898/Were%2Dgoing%2Dto%2Dgo%2Dout%2Dthere%2Dand%2Dwere%2Dgoing%2Dto%2Dviolate%2Dsome%2Drights
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_stop-and-frisk_program">The NYC Stop-and-Frisk Program <small><small>(wiki).</small></small></a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/110686/Furtive-Movements#4088357">Previously</a>. <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/117064/Thank-God-he-had-his-ID#4403634">Previously</a>. <a href="http://gothamist.com/2012/06/14/gus_fring_stopped_and_frisked.php">Previously</a>. And <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-05-04/news/the-nypd-tapes-inside-bed-stuy-s-81st-precinct/">previously</a>. Now there is <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/170413/stopped-and-frisked-being-fking-mutt-video">new audio</a> of how the stop-and-frisk program is being carried out by the NYPD, revealing the discriminatory and unprofessional way in which this controversial policy is being implemented. Includes some discussion on the culture of being a cop and how these orders are being handed down from the top.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.120898Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:41:40 -0800phaedon